Back in Continuum Shift, when Hazama catches Makoto chatting with Jin and not on assignment in Ikaruga, he finally puts two and two together, and his actions relegate his newfound priorities with her - outsource to Relius or kill on sight! His plans completely toppled and his patience having expired, he decides to kill her where she stands - only Rachel shows up and gets her out of there, leaving him alone with his seething rage. This Makoto, as he finds out far too late to salvage the rest of his Wheel of Fortune plot, is actually an extracontinuual anomaly, and not only has she been asking questions about things that didn't happen in Wheel of Fortune, but she also brought Noel up before Tsubaki Yayoi - the resulting confusion caused Tsubaki to not meet with Hazama for prescheduled mindrape, so Hazama has to come up after her, and since Continuum Shift Makoto has been in recent contact, she was nowhere near Relius, who Hazama was outsourcing her handling to. During the events of Wheel of Fortune: Calamity Trigger, Hazama makes an attempt on Jin's life, only to have himself parried by a half-dressed squirrel beastkin he initially recognizes as Makoto Nanaya, but when she asks about Noel, who was obliterated in Ibukido during this timeline, he starts running questions through his mind on just who she is.
Hazama runs afoul of this trope in Continuum Shift Extend, variant 3X.In BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Hakumen says a variation of this in his Arcade path when Nu-13 turns out to be the ninth fight instead of the last one.
In BioShock, Fontaine's plot to get Jack to kill Andrew Ryan to let him take over Rapture went off without a hitch.except for those Little Sisters.Batman: Arkham Knight sees Scarecrow surprised to find out Bruce Wayne is Batman after unmasking him.On top of this, neither side had a real contingency for what to do if their entire communications network goes dark, resulting in widespread chaos and anarchy as nations secede, entire military units rebel, and people start shooting at each other. Unknown Unknown - neither side could forsee that they would launch their ASAT missions at exactly the same time while Osea was besieging the Erusean capital of Farbanti.